Conditions Urban Environment Read the article Cities During the Progressive Era Answer the questions in the text Details By 1900 30 of US population lived in cities Urban poor overcrowding unpaved streets disease and inadequate water supply ID: 676973
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Progressivism: Muckrakers & ReformersSlide2
Conditions: Urban Environment
Read the article, “Cities During the Progressive Era”
Answer the questions in the text
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By 1900: 30% of US population lived in cities
Urban poor: overcrowding, unpaved streets, disease and inadequate water supply
Urban poor: working class made just enough money to surviveSlide3
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Igniting Reform
At first, journalists and other writers had enormous influence on public opinion.
Muckrakers
Journalists alerting the public to wrongdoing in politics and business.
Many Americans were inspired to take action through reform.
To put or change into an improved form or condition.Slide11
Muckraker:
Upton
Sinclair
Author –
The Jungle
Graphic account of filthy handling, spoiled meat, and generally unsanitary conditions in stockyards
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"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Slide12
Upton Sinclair
Read the excerpt from
The Jungle
[on page 11] and answer the questionsSlide13Slide14
Upton Sinclair – Changes
Meat Inspection Act
Required federal inspection of meat sold across state lines
Set standards for cleanliness of meatpacking plants
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugsSlide15
Muckraker: Jacob Riis
Photographer –
How The Other Half Lives
Startling print and photographic exposés of conditions in New York City's slums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACoIbokOcc
“The slum is the measure of civilization.” Slide16
Muckraker: Ida Tarbell
Author –
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Condemnation of Standard Oil’s monopoly.
“Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless ... efficiency of organization.”
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Reformer: Jane Addams
Established the Hull House in Chicago.
Located in poor neighborhood
Middle-class, college-educated women shared skills with less fortunate women and children.
Sanitation, hygiene, English, etc.
Art exhibits, poetry readings, concerts, and theatrical events
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it." Slide18
Reformer: John Muir
Naturalist, explorer, and author
Major figure in the forest conservation movement
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#645
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness." Slide19
Reformer: Susan B. Anthony
Led the fight for women's suffrage for more than 50 years
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-suAlXQhMI
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
"It may be delayed longer than we think; it may be here sooner than we expect; but the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of the nation.”Slide20
Analysis – answer in workbook
In what ways did the muckrakers change America?
Give one or two examples of modern day “muckrakers” – be sure to provide a reason why they would be considered a muckraker.